Exploring different national approaches to prohibiting childlike sex dolls

There is currently no empirical evidence on whether or not the use of childlike sex dolls would prevent encourage sexual abuse children. Yet, more and countries prohibit contemplate prohibiting these objects, EU Commission also announced it consider this issue in context fight against child abuse. This article describes compares laws policies five which are banned: Australia, Germany, Denmark, Norway UK. These have adopted different approaches to dealing with newly emerging phenomenon dolls: While Germany Denmark dedicated introduced, UK existing applied objects. By juxtaposing critically assessing dolls, aims inspire guide other that legislative action context.